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From Amber to Astra: Our Journey to a Collective Name.
Naming isn’t easy when we have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). For us, names carry layers of meaning and complexity that mirror our...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - I: Who is the ‘I’ in DID?Â
Dive into the complex world of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Explore fragmented identities and the language challenges we face.
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - H for Healing and Hiatuses
By Mia and Berlou Healing hiatus A break from the past’s pains pull Moments of respite Just over a week ago we thought we were doing...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - G for Grief
By Mia Grief is a universal human experience and is a complex emotional response to loss, and can encompass a range of emotions such as...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - F for Fronting and Forgetting
By Mia and Berlou The criteria for dissociative identity disorder includes having two or more distinct identity states within one...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - E for Existing
By Berlou We haven’t had loads of ideas for E, we considered emotions but realised we could talk a lot about existing… However, since we...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - D for Diagnosis
By Mia and Berlou We thought we’d write about dissociation for ‘D’, but as we’ve come to do it we changed our minds and will be writing...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - C for Change.
We’re already really behind with this challenge because we have limited spoons and things keep happening that consume energy and...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge -Â B for Berlou
By Mia. We aren’t just going to write about ourselves, honestly! But it’s starting that way, and C will maybe be Caris, consciousness,...
The A-Z Blogging Challenge - A for Amber.
Written by Mia and Berlou. Our plan yesterday was to start doing the online journaling course we signed up for last week to keep our...
Our selfs-driven writing challenge: reflection and integration.
Written by Berlou We’ve been feeling stuck about our writing and healing for some time now. After our system was revealed, we descended...
Another Failure: ‘The Blanket’.
We’ve been quiet here for ages… So many blog posts have been started or thought about but we’ve been stuck in a rut of not doing...
RIP HYC
This will be written by me, Amber, but I’m not just me at the moment and Mia has been ‘running the show’ for months because I can’t, or...
Processing persecutors - our experiences with Kai.
This is an excerpt from our book, The revelation. We've not found many persecutors in our system, Kai was the main one that we met and...
Finally, some good news for Mia.
My name is Amber, I’m the host of our system, and I have our body’s name. I don’t write much, there’s a joke within our system that I...
For us, depression was a symptom, not the condition.
Our host, Amber, has always struggled with depression and anxiety - usually without ever understanding why. We remember when she first...
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